Inu-Yasha proceeded to ponder why Kagome had left her backpack. Despite Miroku's warnings and small lectures, Inu-Yasha convinced him to let him look in her pack. (Inu-Yasha was thinking about Ramen, but Miroku had his own reasons.)
But before he dug too deep, his conscience barked at him and he got the thought that maybe Kagome had reasons she wouldn't want him in there. Perhaps she would forgive him if he brought the pack back to her.
None too hastily was his done. It seems that it took Miroku a little bit fore convincing to get him to stop snooping than it did to get him to start. It took Inu-Yasha pinching Miroku's skin in the zipper to finally convince Miroku to stop.
Inu-Yasha carried Kagome's backpack as somewhat saddened Miroku sulked along behind him (even though we know he really kept it to himself and acted completely normal J ). Inu-Yasha was busy making use of MSHS to notice the gentle sobbing coming from somewhere, but Miroku was quicker to pick up on it then Inu-Yasha might ever be.
He followed the sound off of the roughly beaten path (Inu-Yasha and Kagome had stormed either way along it more than just a few times,) and deeper into the woods to his right.
He proceeded cautiously at first, but less and less as she advanced further into the woods. What he stumbled upon could be noneother than a faerie. She had long hair that flowed in almost no wind. It was an amber brown, but her long bangs were a healthy leafy green. Her ears (or what could be seen) resembled an elf's ears. She was very spindly, kind of like a graceful horse would be – not unhealthily scrawny, but just right. The straps of her top fell off the shoulders (three straps for each shoulder), and she wore bracelets of dewdrops on each wrist. Clear pieces of fabric fell off her chest, layered over the rest of the top which covered her midrift. It was not right, but just a bit loose, A vine served as a best, and flowers held on extra details which covered the otherwise bare portion of the thigh. Long cuts of cloth hung from the front and back of the belt. Each of her legs were wrapped up to her knees in vines, giving her a bit of a ballerina look. Her feet were not quite human, but close enough. They looked fine to Miroku.
He shifted his weight, and, as he did so, he snapped a twig, alerting the faerie to his position. She turned and scanned the area.
She had a bit of a widow's point, and a small clear jewel set on her brow. Her eyes were a deep brown, but in the right light they seemed a bit green, She was crying…
Miroku stepped out to apologize and ask this beautiful creature to bear his child, when he finally noticed the barely visible glossy wings, and before he knew it, she was gone. And just as suddenly, he felt very lost and confused.
Inu-Yasha never noticed Miroku leaving the path. He never even heard the faerie crying off in the woods, he was just too preoccupied with how to apologize to Kagome and giving her backpack back without actually apologizing. When he reached the well, he pondered having some of the Ramen before giving it back, but decided against it (without having the thought that Kagome would come back and find her pack gone through). He proceeded to try and fall into the future, but it seemed that Terra Firma got cocky and decided to break his fall early. In fact, he was surprised to find that he was still in the Sengoku Jidai.